Posted on 06/30/2009 6:30:57 PM PDT by Selene
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - The World Bank has "paused" all program lending to Honduras following a military coup in the impoverished country, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday.
"We're working closely with the OAS (Organization of American States) and looking to the OAS to deal with its handling of the crisis under its democratic charter," Zoellick told reporters, "In the process we have put a pause with our lending."
It’s telling that the Honduran and Iranian people are leading the charge toward freedom. Yet we sit here on FR while our liberties are diminished by each day’s new edict.
Pushing around the poorest nation in central america - nice /s
The OAS has a “democratic charter”? Well, Honduras has a constitution, which their dear communist leader was attempting to violate when the courts, congress, and the army all prevented him.
Obama is obviously pulling all the strings—the UN, the World Bankd, the OAS, the Toe-kissing Press.
It’s important to him partly because the expelled Presidente was a Communist, and partly because Obama, too, wants to be President for Life in due course, so removing this guy is a bad precedent for him.
Honduras certainly seems to have messed up someone’s back room plans. I can’t imagine this coordinated effort against someone that was actually a threat, like North Korea.
Also remember the deal that Obama made with Putin over the base in Kyrgyzstan.... Protecting this guy may have been part of it.
Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Raul Castro, the Chinese, and Vladimir Putin are trying to take over Latin America. Obama wants a few token things from Putin, and will sell out everything to get these few token items (Such as a base in Kyrgyzstan, nuclear disarmament [which the Russians will be allowed to cheat on], and so on.
The dismissal of el presidente has disrupted the Honduran drug trade, putting the World Bank's investments and cash flow at risk. Time to regroup.
“The OAS has a “democratic charter”? “
Yes - Hillary has been quoting it for days, as if it is more important than the constitution. “Democratic” has a nice ring to it.
I was telling a friend today, if it comes to blows down there, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the soldiers have a distinctly Texan accent.
“I hope the Hondurans are strong enough the press forward with their freedom.”
And I hope we are strong enough to get ours back.
Why did Obama want a base in Kyrgystan? I missed something.
This is incredible. Obama’s behind this and he’s pulling out all the stops and calling in all his supporters to punish a tiny country for adhering to its constitution and rejecting a would-be leftist dictator manipulated by Obama’s dearest buddy, Hugo Chavez.
No dissent will be tolerated. He wants to crush Honduras.
Its ironic that those World Bank protesters we always see at their meetings are always left-wingers yet here we have the World Bank defending the leftist ex-President.
Its also strange that we have these massive supranational banks feeding poor countries a constant stream of loans.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282858/posts
How dare those Hondurans interrupt the flow of the blow.
The crack shortage will cause the peeps to get antsy.
The New World Order is no longer a conspiracy theory. Here it is at work.
The World bank is the muscle for Chavez/Castro/Obama now.
He want to rent it from the Kyrgyz government for one more year for operations in Afghanistan. Obama needed the Russian Government’s approval to Kyrgyzstan to rent out this base again for this to take place, thus we needed to give the Russians concessions.
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